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And then there are the letters and communications of one Benjamin Franklin, LL. D., F.R.S. on his experiments with electric kites, observations of the transit of the planet Mercury, and other such things...

Just a minor nitpick (feel free to delete): the letters 'f' and non-final 's' are extremely similar in the fonts used those days, the difference is a small blotch of a bar in 'f'. So those are indeed "glasses" and "professor", respectively.

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